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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Do you really need to carry that excess baggage?

All of
us fellow voyagers in Life are traveling with far too much excess baggage than
what we really need.

2.Physical
Baggage: More than 50 % of the stuff that fills our homes__furniture to clothes
to documents to kitchenware to shoes to display-ware__are the ones we have not
used in months and, most often, in years. So, our homes are overloaded with
‘waste’ which can be useful for others when given away.

3.Baggage
that never was and that never may well be: This is the baggage of worry and anxiety. Of
things and events that you fear will happen to you and because of which you are
unable to live free and in the moment!

All three forms of
excess baggage must be set down to travel in peace. The second form, the
physical baggage, may still be reconcilable. As in, if you have a large living
space, you can afford to accumulate, save or hoard the stuff that you don’t
always use. Even so, Vaani and I follow a simple principle: we don’t hold on to
anything – anything – that we have not used for over 6 months, except our
passports! But the baggage falling in categories 1 and 3 are just not worth
carrying. In a way, Life is pretty much like an airline company. You sure do
end up paying a heavy price for traveling with heavy, excess baggage! In a Life
context, that price is the inability to live in and experience the magic of the
present moment, of the now!

All that you need
to live is what you have in the now. Ask yourself what past memories are
causing an inexplicable heaviness in you? Ask yourself what worries take your
mind away from attending to the now? Burn your heaviness away by giving the
present all your attention. Make a call, give a hug, simply forgive__do
whatever that will bring you into the present. Stop worrying about what will or
may happen in the future. Life is here and never in the future, just as it is
not in the past! Most important, learn, and keep relearning, to offload all
your baggage and travel light. You will then not
only travel smart, but travel far too!